TODAY IN HISTORY - November 29th
1933 - Born this day, John Mayall, in Macclesfield, England, UK blues artist, father of the UK blues movement, his Bluesbreakers Band has featured Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jack Bruce, Peter Green and Jimmy McCulloch.
1941 - Born on this day, Denny Doherty, singer, songwriter, The Mamas And The Papas, (1966 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Monday Monday'). Doherty died on 19th Jan 2007 at the age of 66 after a short illness.
1959 - The Grammy Awards were shown on network television for the first time. (It was actually the second year of the Grammy Awards.) Mack the Knife won Record of the Year and Bobby Darin, who sang it, was Best New Artist of the Year. Frank Sinatra won Album of the Year for Come Dance with Me.
1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best were deported from West Germany after being arrested on suspicion of arson after the hotel room they were staying in mysteriously caught fire. They were released and deported the next day.
1963 - The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in the UK and immediately hit the No.1 spot on the charts. It was released in the US on 26 December that year, and spent seven weeks at No.1.
1965 - This week’s UK Top 5 albums were, at No.5 - Out Of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones, at No.4 Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, No.3 was Help by The Beatles, and No.2 was Mary Popins Soundtrack and No.1 was Sound Of Music Soundtack.
1965 - Colorado Governor John A. Love declared a Rolling Stones day throughout the State as The Stones appeared at The Denver Coliseum in Colorado during a North American tour.
1968 - John & Yoko released their first album Two Virgins in the UK.
1969 - The Beatles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Come Together / Something, the group's 18th US No.1.
1975 - Queen started a nine week run at No.1 in the UK with Bohemian Rhapsody, the promotional video that accompanied the song is generally acknowledged as being the first pop video and only cost £5,000 to produce.
1976 - The Sex Pistols' gig at Lancaster Poly, England was cancelled by the local council, a spokesman said: ‘they didn’t want that sort of filth in the town limits’.
1980 - Abba scored their 9th and last UK No.1 single with Super Trouper, the groups 25th top 40 hit in the UK.
1980 - John and Yoko's Double Fantasy album was released. It made No.1 in the US and the UK and featured the No.1 single Just Like Starting Over.
1996 - American singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ at a club in Minneapolis. On 17 December 1969, he married Victoria Mae Budinger on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, a publicity stunt that attracted over 40 million viewers. (they had a daughter, Tulip Victoria). He performed at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in front of a crowd of 600,000 people.
1997 - Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she was due on stage after finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couple's. The religious group said they had no intention of suing providing the singer returned the $1m fee she had received.
1999 - American singer and bandleader Curtis Knight died aged 54. Jimi Hendrix had been a member of his band in the 60's. Though Hendrix wasn't in the group very long, he was featured on over 60 songs, 26 studio and 35 live recordings some of which have been released on record.
1999 - It was reported that Oasis singer Liam Gallagher had gone missing after leaving his house three days earlier. The band were due to fly out to the US at the end of the week to start a tour.
2000 - U2's Larry Mullen Jr came to the rescue of motorcyclist who had been involved in a crash. Larry was driving home when he saw the motorcyclist who had crashed. He stopped and called for help on his phone and waited for the ambulance to arrive.
2000 - Chuck Berry was sued by his piano player, alleging the sideman wrote the music for 52 of Chuck's songs. A judge later threw out the suit saying too many years had passed.
2001 - Died this day, George Harrison, lead guitarist and spiritual anchor of the Beatles, died of cancer at a friend's Los Angeles home, at 1330 local time. He was 58. Harrison's wife Olivia and son Dhani, 24, were both with him when he died. Speaking outside his home in St John's Wood, north west London, Sir Paul McCartney said: 'I am devastated and very very sad'. Ringo Starr, speaking from Vancouver, Canada said: 'We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter'.
Harrison's post-Beatles career started with the critically acclaimed solo album All Things Must Pass. His role as a film producer took off when he worked on Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979. He was also responsible for The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits and Mona Lisa. In the 1980s he teamed up with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison as The Travelling Wilburys.
2005 - Pop Idol creator Simon Fuller dropped his £100m copyright case against the X Factor's Simon Cowell after Fuller settled the case out of court in a deal which made him a joint partner in the X Factor show. Mr Fuller had claimed Mr Cowell's ITV talent show X Factor copied his successful Pop Idol format, in a case taken to London's High Court. As part of the settlement, Mr Cowell agreed to appear in at least five more series of American Idol.
2007 - Control, the biopic about late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, scooped five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards. The black-and-white film, which featured The Killers, David Bowie and New Order on the soundtrack, was shot for just £3m.
2007 - Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to properly register a new permanent address. The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty in 1993 to charges of attempted capital sexual battery by an adult on a victim younger than 12 and being principal to lewd and lascivious behavior on a child younger than 16. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.
2009 - Susan Boyle's album became the best-selling debut in UK chart history when it went to No.1 on the UK chart. The 48 year-old runner-up in ITV's Britain's Got Talent, sold 410,000 copies of ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. Boyle also topped the US charts, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album with 701,000 copies sold in its first week.
1933 - Born this day, John Mayall, in Macclesfield, England, UK blues artist, father of the UK blues movement, his Bluesbreakers Band has featured Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jack Bruce, Peter Green and Jimmy McCulloch.
1941 - Born on this day, Denny Doherty, singer, songwriter, The Mamas And The Papas, (1966 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Monday Monday'). Doherty died on 19th Jan 2007 at the age of 66 after a short illness.
1959 - The Grammy Awards were shown on network television for the first time. (It was actually the second year of the Grammy Awards.) Mack the Knife won Record of the Year and Bobby Darin, who sang it, was Best New Artist of the Year. Frank Sinatra won Album of the Year for Come Dance with Me.
1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best were deported from West Germany after being arrested on suspicion of arson after the hotel room they were staying in mysteriously caught fire. They were released and deported the next day.
1963 - The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in the UK and immediately hit the No.1 spot on the charts. It was released in the US on 26 December that year, and spent seven weeks at No.1.
1965 - This week’s UK Top 5 albums were, at No.5 - Out Of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones, at No.4 Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, No.3 was Help by The Beatles, and No.2 was Mary Popins Soundtrack and No.1 was Sound Of Music Soundtack.
1965 - Colorado Governor John A. Love declared a Rolling Stones day throughout the State as The Stones appeared at The Denver Coliseum in Colorado during a North American tour.
1968 - John & Yoko released their first album Two Virgins in the UK.
1969 - The Beatles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Come Together / Something, the group's 18th US No.1.
1975 - Queen started a nine week run at No.1 in the UK with Bohemian Rhapsody, the promotional video that accompanied the song is generally acknowledged as being the first pop video and only cost £5,000 to produce.
1976 - The Sex Pistols' gig at Lancaster Poly, England was cancelled by the local council, a spokesman said: ‘they didn’t want that sort of filth in the town limits’.
1980 - Abba scored their 9th and last UK No.1 single with Super Trouper, the groups 25th top 40 hit in the UK.
1980 - John and Yoko's Double Fantasy album was released. It made No.1 in the US and the UK and featured the No.1 single Just Like Starting Over.
1996 - American singer and ukulele player Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) died from a heart attack on stage while playing his hit ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ at a club in Minneapolis. On 17 December 1969, he married Victoria Mae Budinger on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, a publicity stunt that attracted over 40 million viewers. (they had a daughter, Tulip Victoria). He performed at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in front of a crowd of 600,000 people.
1997 - Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she was due on stage after finding out the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couple's. The religious group said they had no intention of suing providing the singer returned the $1m fee she had received.
1999 - American singer and bandleader Curtis Knight died aged 54. Jimi Hendrix had been a member of his band in the 60's. Though Hendrix wasn't in the group very long, he was featured on over 60 songs, 26 studio and 35 live recordings some of which have been released on record.
1999 - It was reported that Oasis singer Liam Gallagher had gone missing after leaving his house three days earlier. The band were due to fly out to the US at the end of the week to start a tour.
2000 - U2's Larry Mullen Jr came to the rescue of motorcyclist who had been involved in a crash. Larry was driving home when he saw the motorcyclist who had crashed. He stopped and called for help on his phone and waited for the ambulance to arrive.
2000 - Chuck Berry was sued by his piano player, alleging the sideman wrote the music for 52 of Chuck's songs. A judge later threw out the suit saying too many years had passed.
2001 - Died this day, George Harrison, lead guitarist and spiritual anchor of the Beatles, died of cancer at a friend's Los Angeles home, at 1330 local time. He was 58. Harrison's wife Olivia and son Dhani, 24, were both with him when he died. Speaking outside his home in St John's Wood, north west London, Sir Paul McCartney said: 'I am devastated and very very sad'. Ringo Starr, speaking from Vancouver, Canada said: 'We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter'.
Harrison's post-Beatles career started with the critically acclaimed solo album All Things Must Pass. His role as a film producer took off when he worked on Monty Python's Life of Brian in 1979. He was also responsible for The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits and Mona Lisa. In the 1980s he teamed up with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison as The Travelling Wilburys.
2005 - Pop Idol creator Simon Fuller dropped his £100m copyright case against the X Factor's Simon Cowell after Fuller settled the case out of court in a deal which made him a joint partner in the X Factor show. Mr Fuller had claimed Mr Cowell's ITV talent show X Factor copied his successful Pop Idol format, in a case taken to London's High Court. As part of the settlement, Mr Cowell agreed to appear in at least five more series of American Idol.
2007 - Control, the biopic about late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, scooped five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards. The black-and-white film, which featured The Killers, David Bowie and New Order on the soundtrack, was shot for just £3m.
2007 - Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to properly register a new permanent address. The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty in 1993 to charges of attempted capital sexual battery by an adult on a victim younger than 12 and being principal to lewd and lascivious behavior on a child younger than 16. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.
2009 - Susan Boyle's album became the best-selling debut in UK chart history when it went to No.1 on the UK chart. The 48 year-old runner-up in ITV's Britain's Got Talent, sold 410,000 copies of ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. Boyle also topped the US charts, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album with 701,000 copies sold in its first week.